For 18 straight hours last Friday night, more than 1,000 members of Case Western Reserve University and the surrounding community came together to fight cancer. Students, faculty, alumni, and friends walked in Relay For Life to fight against the second leading killer in America from 6 p.m. Friday to noon Saturday, and rose over $88,000 in the process.
This past Friday, over 160 students presented their research at the annual SOURCE Symposium and Poster Session. From 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., students, faculty, and judges filled Thwing Ballroom to view posters or listen to oral presentations. Many of the students were presenting senior capstone projects, while others showcased independent research endeavors.
A typical day on Euclid Avenue will see hundreds of students crossing to and from the Main Quad. These miniature mobs often hold up traffic coming from Adelbert Road, but only briefly. This was not the case on May 5th 1970, when over 2,000 people blockaded the intersection. They were not people trying to get somewhere on time. This was a message. This was protest.
Among other things, Research ShowCASE allowed the Case community a chance to perform cyber-surgery, drive cars with their wrists, and help prove that art and science can peacefully coexist. More than 600 student and faculty researchers put their work on display at Thursday's ShowCASE.
Life insurance is for anyone, not just the elderly. The main purpose is to make cash available to support those that are left behind, as well as pay any outstanding debts in your name (student loans, anyone?). In turn, if you have no debts to pay off, this can become your estate to leave behind. Applying when you are young makes you eligible for a better life insurance policy because, in theory, you are in better health than your parents- although doing a few extra sit-ups or quitting smoking might not hurt anyway.
The Hudson Relays will take place on Saturday, April 25, starting at 9:30 a.m. with the dedication of the statue honoring the late chemistry professor Ignacio "Doc Oc" Ocasio. Following the dedication, the race, which is sponsored by the Class Officer Collective, will begin at 10 a.
On Thursday, Arun Subramanian, a 2001 alumnus of Case Western, came to campus to speak about his experiences clerking for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Although Subramanian now works as an attorney at the firm of Susman Godfrey in New York City, he is the only CWRU alum to have succeeded in obtaining a clerkship at the highest court in the nation.
Last Tuesday's Undergraduate Student Government General Assembly (G.A.) was bittersweet for many of its members who will be graduating this May.